VIOLA. 



7. missouriensis lives in the river bottoms of its native State, and 

 forms clumps of broadly heart-shaped, pointed leaves, coarsely toothed, 

 from amid which spring pale violets with a white eye surrounded by a 

 flush of deeper purple. 



7. montafoniensis has no especial merit or distinctness. 



7. montana is a form of V. canina. 



V. multicaulis (Britt.)=F. Walteri, q.v. 



7. multijida is more or less of a twin in needs and looks and 

 habits to V. jnnnata. 



V. Munbyana is a useful 6-inch purple pansy perpetually in bloom, 

 from the Alps of Greece. 



V. nebrodensis. — A form of 7. calcarata, q.v. 



V. nephrophylla (7. vagula) haunts the cold, dank bogs of the 

 North American woodland, and is almost smooth and hairless, with 

 clumps of kidney-shaped, rounded leaves, of which the latest developed 

 are broadly heart-shaped and dimly scalloped here and there. Its 

 violets are fine and large, and rich in deep colour. 



7. nevadensis replaces 7. cenisia in the highest screes of the 

 Sierra Nevada. It is an even less rosette-forming plant, and much 

 less hoary with hair, with the leaves egg-shaped, rather than oval- 

 heart-shaped or broadly oval. Its lovely pansies are of a reddish 

 violet-blue with a radiating eye of gold. It wears a look of 7. crassi- 

 folia, but has larger flowers, and a longer spur, and wider lateral 

 petals, so that the blossoms are fuller hi outline. 



7. Novae Angliae is cousin to 7. septentrionalis, but has the foliage 

 narrowly triangular and pointed, instead of being blunt at the tips. 

 Among these, in the river shingles of New England, arise the many 

 variable violets. 



7. nummulariaefolia is one of the race's choicest jewels. It lives 

 only in the highest turf and open rocky places of the Corsican moun- 

 tains and the Maritime Alps, where often it forms wide, close mats 

 creeping along from its one tap-root, in a mass of shoots along under a 

 big stone in the bare slope, and emerging in dense tuffeted lines of 

 minute rounded leaves, very dark and fleshy and glossy, in cushions 

 that neatly outline the boulder's base. From these shoots in summer 

 come a bewildering abundance of short stems carrying the loveliest 

 round pansy -violets of a quite peculiar shade of clear and brilliant 

 periwinkle bluo, freaked and with a diversity of deep violet-black 

 lines that give a wonderful effect of wisdom to those clear little plump 

 blue faces, so profusely squatting close upon their tuft. In cultivation 

 7. nummulariaefolia requires first of all rather careful ro-establishment 

 in the sand-bed, for it is so precious that the nurseryman who will 



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